SEQUIM — Police are investigating a one-car crash at a busy downtown intersection this morning after the 81-year-old driver was found dead.
The Sequim crash was reported at 6:37 a.m.
The motorist, whose name was withheld pending notification of next of kin, was parked at a bus stop headed eastbound on West Washington Street when witnesses said he gunned the engine, crossing West Washington into the corner of the parking lot at the Rite Aid store.
The newer model Honda CRV bolted through two landscape embankments, shot across a sidewalk and two lanes of North Fifth Avenue near the intersection of Washington Street, crossed another sidewalk and smashed into a concrete-supported light pole at the Walgreens store parking lot at 490 West Washington St.
Clallam County Fire District No. 3 emergency medical technicians removed the body.
Traffic was not interrupted at the intersection because the vehicle did not block the street.
The Peninsula Daily News will report additional information as it becomes available.
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Sequim-Dungeness Valley Editor Jeff Chew can be reached at 360-681-2391 or at jeff.chew@peninsuladailynews.com.
